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By Maayan Lubell and Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's tough stance on Iran has boosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's popularity at home, and he can expect more good press in the coming days when the United States opens its embassy in Jerusa

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On the Commentary podcast, the hosts unpack what Benjamin Netanyahu's intelligence reveal says about the precarious state of the Iran nuclear deal.

The Iran deal needs to go and it probably will. The left will complain because the left doesn't like anything that is good for Israel. But the lesson here is that the deal is not strong enough to stop Iran from obtaining nukes.

Lapid, who is one of the heads of the opposition, surprisingly used his speech to support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on what is seen as a historic day for Israel.

It;s absolutely absurd to claim that anything but Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. How about of the Arabs recognize Israel before they complain about where the capital is? The bottom line is that there isn't a single government building that is on disputed land. This is just another excuse for Arab activists to cause more violence.

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Does Team Obama want more Palestinian attacks on Israelis? Secretary of State John Kerry sure gives that impression. Wednesday saw more bloodletting: An Arab stabbed a 70-year-old woman as she boar...

This is one of the best recent commentaries on Israel I have read.

"Then, on Tuesday, he actually suggested it was Israel’s fault: “There has been a massive increase in settlements over the course of the last years,” he said. “And there’s an increase in the violence because there’s this frustration that’s growing.”

Ironically, on the day Kerry spoke, the left-wing newspaper Haaretz reported there’s been less settlement-building since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office than under any of his predecessors since the Palestinian Authority’s birth in 1995."

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President Obama called Kerry and UN Ambassador Samantha Power into a video conference before Netanyahu’s UN Speech.

So the same feckless, petulant, baby that whined about Netanyahu not following diplomatic protocols for his UN speech (which turned out to be a complete lie), treated our closest ally in the same way that previous administrations treated dictators, fascists and communists. Obama is repugnant.

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Richard Grenell, a former U.S. diplomat and Fox News contributor, says a State Department Source told him U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power was told to skip the

Can you think of another instance of an American president ordering officials not to attend a speech by any allied head of state at the UN? Neither can I. Not only did Obama instruct Kerry and Power not to attend, he instructed the lower level officials not to applaud.

"Additionally, those U.S. delegates that did attend the Israeli Prime minister’s speech did not applaud when ovations broke out for remarks made by the Prime Minister about Iranian threats."

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It’s the question on everyone’s mind. Will the Iran deal push Iran back from the nuclear edge and become a pathway to moderation and the global community? Or, is it a dangerous agreement, a replay of Chamberlain’s tragic deal with Germany that paved the way for war?

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For days, lefties like Chris Matthews of MSNBC and Jonathan Chait of the New Republic have been fuming that conservative critics of the Iran “framework” have referred to it as the sequel to the Munich agreement of 1938—the deal that defined “appea

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On Monday, President Barack Obama casually rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s call to force Iran to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as part of any agreement on the country's nuclear program.

In a different time, and with a different president, this demand would have been a foregone conclusion. Israel is (I hate to say it, but "was" may be a better word until 2016), facing a serious threat if Iran obtains nuclear weapons. At the very least, forcing Iran to recognize Israel would be an effective way to begin to determine how honest they are when they say that they want nuclear technology for supposedly peaceful purposes. Obama is weak, and naive at best and dangerously evil at worst. This is proof.

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PM tells president agreement based on new framework would 'legitimize Iran's nuclear program, bolster its economy, increase its aggression and terror in Mideast and beyond

This deal is, as it appears right now, horrible. The Iranians only major "concession" seems to be allowing some inspectors to come in. Whether these inspections will even include surprise inspections is still a mystery.

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Japan's prime minister has been invited to address Congress next month. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, invited Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to speak to a joint meeting about economic and security priorities the two nations share. Abe will be the first J

So is it only a problem when it's the Israeli PM speaks? Where is the liberal outrage now?

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Obama's allies in the press have coopted some of the most absurd justifications for throwing Israel to the wolves. After years of ginned-up conflict, Barack Obama has finally found a pretext to change the contours of the United States-Israel alliance. Israel’s policies might not be changing, but the administration will “reevaluate” the relationship, anyway.

Obama has wanted this for six year and, as always, the minions in the media are lined up to do anything to support their guy, no matter how absurd, or how destructive.

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Of all the idiocies uttered in reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning election victory, none is more ubiquitous than the idea that peace prospects are now dead because Netanyahu has declared that there will be no Palestinian state while he is Israel’s prime minister. Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection does not portend more strife in the Middle East.

Another stunningly clear headed and insightful piece by Charles Krauthammer.

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President Barack Obama is considering agreeing to a United Nations Security Council resolution “embodying the principles of a two-state solution that would be based on the pre-1967 lines between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza Strip and mutually agree

He is already the only American president who has ever implied that te completely indefensible '67 "border" is an option. People, particularly Jewish people, need to wake up and finally understand that Obama is not Israel's friend. He may be the exact opposite.

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All day long CNN has been relentlessly beating the drum and practically celebrating the forgone conclusion that sitting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was about to lose today’s elections. Every move Netanyahu made over the past few weeks that

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A powerful U.S. Senate investigatory committee has launched a bipartisan probe into an American nonprofit’s funding of efforts to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the Obama administration’s State Department gave the nonprofit taxpa

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The Israeli prime minister gave a powerful speech and raised the bar on an Iran deal.

"What Netanyahu did Tuesday was raise the bar for Obama. Any deal that the administration signs will have to address the concerns Netanyahu voiced. Given what’s at stake in the Middle East, that’s probably a good thing. As administration officials said at the outset of negotiations, no deal is better than a bad one."

This may end up being the speech of the century. Churchill has his detractors and it only after history has filtered our a lot of the noise that we understand how important any event of our time is (unless it is something truly obvious like Pearl Harbor or 9/11).

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Many countries have nuclear weapons, and many more want them. Only one, though, has its neighbors and the world terrified. That country is Iran. Why is everyone so concerned? Because the Islamic theocracy has repeatedly threatened to destroy Israel, spons

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It didn't take long for the Minority Leader of the House to vent her anger toward the Prime Minister of Israel. According to Paul Kane of the Washington Post, Pelosi stormed out at the end of Bibi's speech; And there she goes - @NancyPelosi lea

She very obviously wrote her remarks before the speech. She also turned her back on Netanyahu DURING the speech. She is one of the most repulsive people walking the earth right now.

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American National Security Adviser Susan Rice alternated between reconciliation and pointed jabs during her address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) plenary Monday evening, a speech marked by a detailed endorsement of the Obama administration’s position on Iran talks coupled with assurances that the US will protect Israel’s security.

So AIPAC invites her to speak, she insults AIPAC, insults the Jewish community and then tells us that the most powerful country on Earth cannot stop Iran from getting Nukes. Well done AIPAC.

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From Yahoo News: By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran must commit to a verifiable freeze of at least 10 years on sensitive nuclear activity for a landmark atomic deal to be reached, but the odds are still against sealing a final agreement, U.S. Presi

I can't even believe this. A DECADE? People are willing to accept that in 10 years Iran will legally, and with American consent, produce nuclear weapons? And THIS is what Obama considers a success? It's nearly beyond belief.

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See, the point here isn't whether Obama did this or not. I think personally that he probably did not. The point is t that things have degraded so incredibly monumentally that thousands of people believe that it's even a possibility.

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Sometimes a speech is just a speech. Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech about Iran policy on March 3 will not be his first address to Congress. It will make familiar, if important, arguments. One might assume that, like the vast majority of speeches, it would soon be overtaken by events in Israel and the United States and the world.

William Kristol draws a parallel between this speech and Churchill's in December 1941. Interesting take on both Obama and Netnayahu.

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Is there any dirty job for the Obama administration that Susan Rice is not prepared to do? Need someone to fraudulently blame the murder of an American ambassador in Libya on a stupid film? Send Rice to the Sunday morning talk shows.

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President Obama does not stand up for Jews murdered by Islamic Terrorists. President Obama does not stand up for Christians murdered by Islamic Terrorists. Is there anyone President Obama will stand up for? Ben Shapiro explains why the answer is probably

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The Obama administration values a future relationship with Iran more than it values the historic relationship it has with Israel. Unless there’s a reversal in the reported deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran, all the superficial talk about this extraordinary friendship between Israel and the United States isn’t going to mean much.

Great piece that explains exactly why the shenanigans of those that oppose the speech are so absurd.

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No responsible PM could refuse invitation to speak to Congress on issue that threatens israel's survival, he tells visiting US Jewish leaders

So to recap: the Speaker of the House of the United States issues an invitation to the PM of, arguably, our closest ally to speak before the Congress. Keep in mind, this is something that has happened many times before, including with Netanyahu and there has been no controversy. Then the Obama administration manufactured (as the New York Times later admitted) a story about Netanyahu not informing the WH before he accepted the invitation (in fact, Bibi accepted the invitation only after he knew that Obama was aware of it). The Obama administration then also issued a statement saying that the POTUS would not meet with Netanyahu because of a supposed policy of not meeting with heads of state immediately before an election. Then, that turned out to be false as well. But even after ALL of that, the White House may be keeping Israel in the dark about the Iranian negotiations because it is concerned that Netanyahu is playing politics with the issue??? Whether you want to call it hubris, chutzpah or arrogance, the entire thing us mind numbingly aggravating and the stakes are so high that nobody, NOBODY, should be playing politics with this.

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From Yahoo News: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged European Jews to move to Israel after a Jewish man was killed in an attack outside Copenhagen's main synagogue. "Israel is your home. We are preparing and calling for the abso

Twenty years ago in no one's remotest dreams would we be in a situation where the Israeli PM is urging Jews to leave Europe. Yet, some people still don't seem to understand that we are in a crisis situation.

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In full-page ad, Nobel Prize winner expresses firm support for 'keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America'

Good. We should be doing ANYTHING possible to prevent Iran from getting Nukes. Having Eli Wiesel give his seal of approval to this speech automatically confers an extra level of credibility (one that I don't believe it needed, but this will change the views of some who oppose it).

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For one whole week, I’ve been staring at The Correction. I’m a fairly seasoned reader of the New York Times, and a frequent critic of the paper, but the more I gazed at The Correction, the more it gazed back at me, defiant. What the hell? You might h

The short version: the White House lied to support its anti-Bibi agenda and the NY Times ran with it because they always support their guy-until they get caught. Brian Williams should get a job as their fact checker.

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The Obama administration is going all out to see that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is defeated, but the campaign of veiled threats and anonymous leaks is backfiring: Instead of sinking in the polls, Netanyahu is rising.Obama's offensive against Netanyahu isn’t working.

This doesn't surprise me. Some people tried really hard to characterize Netanyahu's visit as being highly unusual, or that the speech itself (and not merely how the invitation was issued) as being a violation or protocol. Both assertions were very transparently false and people saw through it very quickly and resented it. Netanyahu is also perceived as the strongest candidate in terms of defense and at a tumultuous time like this, that would be difficult for any opponent to overcome.,

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It is fitting and proper--indeed essential for our very security--that Speaker John Boehner has extended an invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu to address Congress on Iran and its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and

I completely agree with Forbes here. It is beyond me how people oppose ANYONE who is sincerely committed to ensuring that Iran does not get Nukes.

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Chicago-style campaigning lands in Israel. Who and what is running this

The incident with Netanyahu and Boehner aside, I find it difficult to understand why people in the US and Israel are not VERY concerned about an American president getting even tangentially involved in the Democratic elections of our ally.

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Just days after the Obama White House accused House Speaker John Boehner of “breaking protocol” by inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress, a team of up to five Obama campaign operatives has reportedly

So Senor Malfeasance, aka the Hypocrite in Chief, aka, Mr. Petulant, aka Barack Obama, does it again. His administration apparently leaked a fake story about Mossad, will snub Netanyahu because of "protocol" about meeting with heads of state before elections (yet did so recently with Cameron), and now is sending team to disrupt the Democratic elections of an ally. The man is a disgrace.

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This is coming directy from Mossad. The story never made sense in the first place. Really? They opposed Netanyahu's Iran policy? But it's Kerry and Obama that accuse Netanyahu of "meddling" in the affairs of an ally.

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To the Left, Netanyahu’s trip to Paris was a public relations disaster for Israel.

The left's view of Netanyahu's trip was astonishing. It amounted to this: "France doesn't like Netanyahu and we are embarrassed by that because we care more about France's opinion than out own country."

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Hollande called to personally invite PM after intention to join march became clear, according to report

So the PM of the Western country most affected by Islamic terror (and at the vanguard of the fight) wasn't initially wanted at a rally supposedly in defiance of Islamic terror. Hmmm. Makes you wonder what the motivations of the PM of France actually are.

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PM says jihadists at war with West, encourages Jewish immigration; Liberman, Ya'alon and Lapid also urge Europe's Jews to come

One of the primary reasons why Israel is so vitally important is that history has taught us that Jewish people in the Diaspora need a place to go where they are welcome if things go wrong in their country of origin. People used to think that was a little bit of hyperbole if you were discussing the Western World. But, as we are saying, things change...

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You know you’ve seen it all when an American administration is reduced to calling a world leader – and a primary ally – a “Chickensh**t.”

I disagree with some of this. I think that Obama's utter refusal to acknowledge the deaths of three Israeli boys in a speech he gave hours after the news that they had been murdered broke, and his intense disrespect for Israel's head of state make the accusation of antisemitism somewhat credible. I do agree with many of the sentiments here though.

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The leader of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, has publicly admitted that the terror group is rebuilding its underground tunnel network.

Is anyone surprised? "Stand With Israel" called this when Netanyahu agreed to the ceasefire. "Mowing the lawn" (the policy of containing Hamas) will ultimately cost us far more than ending this permanently would have.

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Anyone watching Sunday's broadcast of Face the Nation on CBS did not hear critical comments about President Obama from Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Those were edited out and sequestered to CBS's website, leaving only the positive comments a

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Denying allegation that it doesn't have facts, State Department says was well aware of the approval for new housing in the Givat Hamatos neighborhood

Jews buying, and then building on, land in THEIR country's capital does not constitute a "settlement." Israel is correct, the Obama administration reacts to Israel in a "knee jerk" ways with no regard for the facts.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had high praise for President Obama for leading the coalition attacking Islamic militants in Syria, and criticized those who condemned Israel for its war with Hamas in a speech to the United Nations Monday.

He is correct: HOW can the same countries that support the US in its efforts against ISIS have condemned Israel's actions toward Israel.

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Disputes over the conduct of Israel's recent offensive in the Gaza Strip have left the Obama administration with little influence over Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu's government and kept the U.S. largely on the sidelines as Egypt attempts to ne

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Ronan Farrow, who used to report to Hillary Clinton at the State Department, was taken to school on the Tuesday edition of his eponymous program by Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

This is so great. Who the hell does this kid think he is? Oh yeah: the spoiled son of a serious leftist (Diane Keaton) who has probably been schooled in Israel hatred his entire life.